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CBG is hosting an event with Catherine Reynolds, Holli Andrews, BLUSH and Sharon Secchiaroli.
Daybreak is committed to serving teens and their families battling against addiction and mental illness. Wine, noshes and prizes. This is a chance to give back and pay it forward!

Fair Trade Sale is returning to Trinity Lutheran
The 14th Annual Fair Trade Sale is returning to Trinity Lutheran on Saturday, December 1, AND Sunday, December 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days. Free admission.
Fair trade items are artful crafts made by people in developing countries around the world. When you support fair trade, artisans receive a fair price for what they have made. Because of fair trade, many people are able to provide food, education, and medical attention for their families. Many of our products for this year’s sale come through Lutheran World Relief.
LWR uses the money they receive from the sale to help people around the world on our behalf. What can you do to help??? (ANY or ALL of the following would be a GREAT help!):
> Donate paper shopping bags and Christmas gift bags for the sale.
> Donate fruit, cookies/bars to provide a welcoming and hospitable area for those who shop and may be coming to Trinity for the first time.
> Tell your friends, family, and co-workers about this event, noting that the proceeds of the sale go to help those in need around the world. This is not a fund-raiser for us, but one of our many ways we reach out to the world.
> Offer to hang up posters where you work and places you frequent. (Leave a message for Kelsey Cordes-Snyder, (208) 661-3795, if you can do this.)
> Come and SHOP the days of the sale!
If you have questions, ideas, and more, please contact Kelsey Cordes-Snyder at (208) 661-3795.

Join us for our 3rd annual Craft Fair! Food, Crafts, Vendors, Live Music, & Fun. Fresh, local Christmas trees will also be for sale in the parking lot. Funds support the CCS 11th & 12th grade trip to Washington DC.

Fair Trade Sale is returning to Trinity Lutheran
The 14th Annual Fair Trade Sale is returning to Trinity Lutheran on Saturday, December 1, AND Sunday, December 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days. Free admission.
Fair trade items are artful crafts made by people in developing countries around the world. When you support fair trade, artisans receive a fair price for what they have made. Because of fair trade, many people are able to provide food, education, and medical attention for their families. Many of our products for this year’s sale come through Lutheran World Relief.
LWR uses the money they receive from the sale to help people around the world on our behalf. What can you do to help??? (ANY or ALL of the following would be a GREAT help!):
> Donate paper shopping bags and Christmas gift bags for the sale.
> Donate fruit, cookies/bars to provide a welcoming and hospitable area for those who shop and may be coming to Trinity for the first time.
> Tell your friends, family, and co-workers about this event, noting that the proceeds of the sale go to help those in need around the world. This is not a fund-raiser for us, but one of our many ways we reach out to the world.
> Offer to hang up posters where you work and places you frequent. (Leave a message for Kelsey Cordes-Snyder, (208) 661-3795, if you can do this.)
> Come and SHOP the days of the sale!
If you have questions, ideas, and more, please contact Kelsey Cordes-Snyder at (208) 661-3795.

Last year was so fun, let’s do it again!
It’s that time of the year… parties, too much food and drink, and of course ugly Christmas sweaters! Trail Maniacs would like to combine those time honored traditions AND we’ll even throw in a little help for those less fortunate. We are having an Ugly Sweater run. This event is free, but we are accepting gently used jackets, coats, sweaters and blankets for those in need.
Starting at the St. Vincent parking lot at 201 E Harrison Ave, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814. We will run 3 to 4 mile (route will depend on weather conditions). Route will most likely include 2nd Street to Tubbs Hill and back, we will finish at Daft Badger. Daft Badger Brewing will have refreshments and a contest for best dressed runner! Voting will start at Daft Badger at 12:00 pm. We will update prizes, but we will have a prize for overall male and female best ugly sweater! Best of all Daft Badger will be offering $1.00 off pints for anyone wearing an ugly sweater!

Traditions of Christmas is a Radio City Music Hall style show which includes beautifully choreographed kickline tap numbers, Santa’s workshop, a heartfelt military tribute performance and a grand Nativity conclusion. Featuring a cast of 70 people, spectacular sets, live animals, and over 400 costumes.

Help us kick-off the holiday season with your family and community friends at our winter festival of fun. The City Hall Campus will be bustling with holiday festivities for all ages. We will start the evening by sending out our holiday magic to light-up the community tree. You can enjoy the caroling choirs, warm-up by our outdoor campfires with a warm cup of cider while roasting a marshmallow or enjoying a treat from Mrs. Claus’ kitchen, there will be crafts for all the little elves. Santa will be in his workshop throughout the evening excited for his annual visit with all of his friends. Help contribute to the less fortunate in our community by bringing non-perishable food items, unwrapped new toys, blankets and gently used coats as a donation for our local food bank’s holiday needs.

Join the Hauser Lake Volunteer Fire Department for a deluxe breakfast prepared by the first responders. Take photos with Santa (and Mrs. Claus) and share your lists with him. Try your luck in the huge Hauser Lake Fire Auxiliary Raffle!

Suggested donations are only $3/person or $10 per family for breakfast and $1/raffle ticket. Proceeds benefit Eaton, a 6-year-old from Hayden with cancer, and his family. 2018 is the Hauser Lake Volunteer Fire Department’s 33rd year sponsoring this cherished community event.

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. […] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

The Human Rights Education Institute (HREI) invites you to celebrate our 20th Anniversary year on Human Rights Day, December 10th, by attending a special presentation at HREI.

Please be our guest and support the Human Rights Education Institute’s K-12 educational and community programming efforts. All proceeds from the breaksfast will these opportunities and HREI’s MIssion to celebrate diversity and human rights by educating, raising awareness and recognizing the value of all humanity.

This celebratory breakfast will be held on December 10, 2018 from 7-8:30AM ((Doors open at 6:45a.m.) at the Human Rights Education INstitue located at 414 West Fort Grounds Drive in beautiful downtown Coeur d’Alene. You will be our guest – a delicious breakfast is sponsored. This event is a fundraising breakfast.and guests MUST RSVP by registering on Eventbrite or with one of our table captains.

This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being — regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

If you cannot attend the breakfast, pleae consider making a doantion to support our 2019 programming at HREI.org/donate

Join us for the following volunteer event to help children in our community. We’ll be putting together backpacks full of food for kids over the holiday break.

The Post Falls Food Bank works closely with the Post Falls School District to provide food for over 150 students over the holiday break. These children who are living at or below the federal poverty level and are at risk of not getting enough to eat over the long break. Nutritionally balanced food is identified specifically for this program. The food packs are purchased by the Post Falls Food Bank and need our help to assemble these backpacks.

Our $10 bag sale for charity has come upon us once again. Together with the help of our generous customers who have marked to donate the remaining clothes that we could not buy from them to this sale, have found a way to give back to our community. The sale is crazy but wonderful and you will not want to miss it. We provide a kitchen size garbage bag for you to stuff with a gymnasium full of clothing, shoes and accessories and each bag is only $10 cash. If you want to get in a half hour early it will cost you a $20 cash donation at the door to get in at 4:30pm, however that does not include the cost to your stuff to bag. All profits go to local charities as we have raised tens of thousands over the past eight years. We will try to donate at least $1000 to the Boys and Girls Club and then we will soon decide the other recipients. SOME ADVICE…Please try to leave small children at home, where comfy clothes as you will be sorting through piles on the floor, and do not bring things that you might lose or that might get stuffed into someone else’s bag.
Here are some of the charities we have donated to in the past:
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
N. IDAHO VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER
UGM
CHILDREN’S VILLAGE
CASA OF N. IDAHO
N. IDAHO HEAD START
HUMANE SOCIETY
HOSPICE
NEW BEGINNINGS (veterans)
HOPE 4.5K
St. VINCENTS
OPEN ARMS
FAMILY PROMISE
LAKE CITY FOOD BANK
GOODWILL
IDAHO YOUTH RANCH
KID CENTRIC SPORTS ASSOC.
CAMP KANIKSU
KEA
FATHER’S MARKET

Grab your best Santa suits and head out for a bar crawl! SantaCon is in it’s forth year of fun. What’s better than dressing up and drinking? Dressing up, drinking, and helping people get bikes for the holiday!
There will be prizes for best Santa, best Mrs Clause, and most memorable. Come join the fun!

Ensure that everyone in our community receives expert Hospice care and grief support, regardless of their ability to pay. Hospice Wine Taste is the community’s choice fundraiser for Hospice of North Idaho for 34 years!

In black tie, meet philanthropists like you who are engaged in the Hospice Mission. Enjoy gourmet food, samples of specialty wines, and bid on live auction packages including unbelievable global ventures!

“The Heart of it All” celebrates the beauty that North Idaho has to offer. Play games to win adventures, excursions and date nights.

Grand Prize: Win a trip to your destination of choice! Purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win $4,995 travel voucher to any destination! The winner is drawn at Wine Taste. (Sold separately at www.hospicewinetaste.org, need not be present to win, makes a great stocking stuffer, only 500 tickets available!)

NEW: The 2019 event will be held on the Hospice of North Idaho Campus, in the Community Building, as the Hayden Lake Country Club undergoes exciting renovations!

Come in out of the cold and join us for a beach party with South Pacific. Wear your favorite Hawaiian apparel for a fun evening with this classic in concert. The evening includes a dessert assortment, Polynesian dance lessons along with other fun games and prizes. Party starts at 6 pm on Saturday, February 2nd.

Tickets are $30 each or table of 8 for $200. To purchase your tickets now, call 208-929-0066 or go to www.cytnorthidaho.org

CDAIDE’s 2nd Annual Care Affair will be held at the The Coeur d’Alene Resort. We are featuring four NEW Celebrity Chefs this year and you won’t want to miss out on the fun. Of course, all donated dollars go directly to support our hard-working hospitality community. So get your tickets today before they sell out. This year promises to be even bigger and better than last year.

The 2019 Northwest Fest & Salmon Feast is Family Promise of North Idaho’s major annual fundraiser. It offers a dinner, silent and live auctions, and dancing! We invite you to join us on February 9. Make your reservations early, as this event sold out last year.

The 4th annual Mardi Gras Krewe d’Alene in the CDA Resort Plaza Shops. As you stroll through the “streets” of New Orleans in this re-creation of the French Quarter, you’ll find samples of delicious New Orleans’-style fare from up to 10 local favorite restaurants who are competing in a lively cookoff for Chef’s choice and People’s choice awards. With fun street entertainment throughout there is so much to do.

In addition to the featured restaurants, you can enjoy stilt walkers, jugglers, fortune tellers, henna tatooists, body painters, artists in action, and live musicians. Enjoy a drink in Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar, a re-creation of the oldest bar in the country. Sip on a Café Au Lait and savor delightful beignets in the re-creation of the historic Café Du Monde. And new this year is a performance by the drag queens Nova Kaine and Les Gurlz.

Find the baby in the King Cake and reign over the 2019 Mardi Gras, leading the traditional second line led by a live jazz trio. And as they say in New Orleans, “laissez les bon temps rouler” which means “let the good times roll”!

Tickets include a great evening of food, fun, and a souvenir shot glass. There are prizes for best costume and most spirited reveler. Costumes are encouraged but not required. The bar is no host, and revelers must be 21 and over.